> I'm not too sure where the "bitcoin is anonymous" misinformation comes from, sadly. Saying that "bitcoin is anonymous" is indeed misleading. But bitcoin doe

> I'm not too sure where the "bitcoin is anonymous" misinformation comes from, sadly. Saying that "bitcoin is anonymous" is indeed misleading. But bitcoin does make it possible to stay anonymous, if you are very careful. For example, you can generate a new address and use it to receive bitcoins without revealing anything about yourself at the time of payment, and without revealing to any third party that you were paid. Making payments without leaking any information is much more difficult. You would have to pass your bitcoins through a third party which you trust not to reveal the link between deposits and withdrawals. If you don't fully trust any such service, you can pass through multiple independent ones. Even then, somebody could correlate deposits and withdrawals by their size and timing. There exist Mixer Services (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mixing_service https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mixing_service) which are designed to make this difficult.